Improvement in handles for milk-cans



N,PEfERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER( WASHINGTON D C a depressed or' closed position.

p can, and D is the hoisting-eye.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALVIN o. REOKWITH AND GEORGE H. GRAHAM, OE ORIsKANY, NEW YORK.`

Specification forming part of Letters lPatent No. 107,855. dated October 4, 1870.

- To all w/Lont fit may concern,.-

Y Be it known that we, ALVIN G. BEOKWITH and GEORGE H. GRAHAM, of riskany, inthe county of Oneida and State of New York,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Handles for Milk-Gans; and we do hereby declare that the following` is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others to makeand use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 isa frontyie'w with the handle in Fig. 2 is'a like View with the handle elevated, and Fig. 3 is a side View.` n L Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the severalgures.

In the accompanying drawings, A is the handle. Bis the plate for securing it to the The handles are made. complete in ,two parts, and ready for securing to the cans without preparatory fitting o rV attaching the parts to each other, the handle A being rst cast, and the plate afterward cast in oonnection'with it, so that the standards or boxes b fb of` the plate are cast around the axis or shaft a of the handle, and by this means an importantsaving of labor is made, and the parts are secured to each other in a Very permanent and durable manner.

The shaftaof the handle is made smallerwhere it is to be inclosed by the boxes. b b, to pre- Vent endwise movement oi' the handle in the boxes. The shaft a a is cast with a large hoisting-eye, D, at itscenter.` This eye allows the hoisting-hook to pass entirely through it, sothat the most convenient and safe hold of the can is obtained, and at the same time the eye'is placed as near tothe bodyof the can as possible, to lessen the liability of the handles being torn from the can. and plate are cast with stops C c, Fig. 3, to hold the handle, whenin use, at the proper angle from the can. By these means we obtain a substantial and desirable handle at a less cost than ordinarily.

Having thus described our inventiomwhat vWe claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- Y The handle 

